THE LETTER

My husband has been very excited for this movie to come out



Me?

Not so much.

Movies about magic, fantasy, weird creatures, etc are not really my thing

Movies about love, mystery and comedy with no weird or abnormal events/people?

Now we are talking!

So therefore I haven't been on the edge of my seat about to pee my pants from excitement to see this movie.

However, I do love my husband so I will see it with him.

On Sunday Clayton decided to take matters into his own hands.

There was an article in Ogden's Standard Examiner about how to win tickets to a special screening of the Thursday night showing of PART 1 & 2.  All you had to do was send an email telling them why you deserve to go.  they had like 40 something tickets they were giving away.

Clayton decided to enter.

Here is his email:

Standard Examiner,

After reading your article about you having Harry Potter tickets, I decided to share with you why I deserve a pair:

So here's the deal... I LOVE MOVIES!!! Ten years ago, I went with deep skepticism to a movie called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.  I didn't know anything about it other than a lot of people were saying it was an awesome movie based on an incredible book. Wizards and Sorcerer's, dragons, magic... all that was pretty much at the top of my "what makes a movie terrible" list.  Well, since I'm the type to never ruin a good movie by reading a book, I went to the film just to see what it was all about.  I LOVED IT, and so began my becoming a fan of Harry Potter.

Fast forward four years... I meet the girl of my dreams and get married.  Long story short, she HATES Harry Potter!  Had she been aware of me being a fan, our wedding may have never happened (good thing we got married between Harry Potter 3 and 4 and my love for the movie flew under the radar).  My wife is somewhat kind about going  to the movies, but there are certain conditions which need to be met... the movie can't be over 2 hrs long, it can't start past 7:00pm, and it CAN'T BE HARRY POTTER!!!  Oh, and the most critical condition: It must be a chick flick!!!  You can imagine how wonderful my movie going experience has been since getting married.  We joyfully go to movies like 'Sweet Home Alabama', 'Bride Wars', '27 Dresses', and 'The Proposal'.  Yet it's like pulling teeth to get to 'Transformers', 'Spiderman', or 'Dark Knight'.  Getting to Harry Potter DOES NOT HAPPEN!!!

Here is the potential loophole in my situation.  Though my wife is an adamant Harry Potter hater, she absolutely CAN NOT pass up something that's free.  It doesn't matter what it is, nor does it matter how little she needs it, if it's free... it's NEVER passed up!  I can't tell you how embarrassing Saturday trips to Sam's Club can be! If my wife was allergic to a free sample, she would suffer the trip to the E.R. just because she can't resist something FREE!

Free tickets to Harry Potter is the only way I am getting to this movie... plain and simple.  If you help me with these tickets, maybe (just maybe) I will finally feel avenged for sitting in line 2 hours early on opening night to get good seats for 'TWILIGHT'!!!

Clayton McMurdie

Pretty good, huh.

We did not win.

Personally...no big deal...to me

Clayton...is a little distraught...but he will survive

ps...you have been privileged with 6...YES SIX posts today.  For some reason Google or my computer has been acting up by not letting me upload any pictures.  I about took a baseball bat to my computer, but lucky for it I was able to upload today.